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Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
DCSF: Children transferring to secondary school in September 2009 will be the first who will need to continue in education or training until they are 18, following the passage of the Education and Skills Act in 2008. A short informal booklet – Moving up – will be available from September to help new ‘Year 7s’ with the transition and explain the choices ahead.
The DCSF produced a similar booklet for the young people who moved to Year 7 in September 2008. This latest version incorporates feedback from children, parents & schools. These booklets can help support induction programmes and will be available in the first week of term, along with classroom materials.
Newswire - HCA: The Homes and Communities Agency’s approach to co-ordinating investment decisions with planning policy obligations to help unlock many more developments across the country, is set out in a new Good Practice Note. The publication - HCA investment and planning obligations: responding to the downturn - has been produced for staff & partners of the national housing & regeneration agency.
Working with Local Planning Authorities, through the HCA’s Single Conversation (a place-based approach to investment), the Agency will ‘support housing & regeneration priorities for an area by investing in ways that unlock schemes that are currently unviable, using public investment alongside private investment, to help make best possible use of developer contributions through planning permissions and planning obligations’.
The purpose of the document is to set out the approach the HCA will take to help local authorities meet immediate housing need and ensure that when the upturn begins, a recovering market is not hampered by a proliferation of lapsed consents, or delays due to a glut of re-applications.
